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The Portable Nietzsche

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche

A Nietzsche Reader

The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

On the Genealogy of Morality

 


Friedrich Nietzsche
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From Wikipedia
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a Prussian-born philosopher. He began his academic career as a philologist and produced critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, and philosophy. Nietzsche's works are notable for their style, tending to be more aphoristic and paradoxical than was standard in philosophic treatises. Nietzsche was largely overlooked by his contemporaries during his life, but he received recognition during the first half of the 20th century in German, French, and British intellectual circles. He gained notoriety when the German Nazi Party appropriated him as a forebear, despite Nietzsche's professed opposition to antisemitism and German nationalism. After World War II, Walter Kaufmann embarked on a sustained effort to rehabilitate Nietzsche's reputation in the English-speaking world, and by the second half of the 20th century Nietzsche had become regarded as a highly significant and influential figure in modern philosophy. Directly and mediately (through Martin Heidegger), Nietzsche influenced existentialism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, and most subsequent thought.(more)


Books by Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

The Will to Power

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Last Days of Friedrich Nietzsche


When we hear the ancient bells growling on a Sunday morning we ask ourselves: Is it really possible! This, for a jew, crucified two thousand years ago, who said he was God's son? The proof of such a claim is lacking. Certainly the Christian religion is an antiquity projected into our times from remote prehistory; and the fact that the claim is believed - whereas one is otherwise so strict in examining pretensions - is perhaps the most ancient piece of this heritage. A god who begets children with a mortal woman; a sage who bids men work no more, have no more courts, but look for the signs of the impending end of the world; a justice that accepts the innocent as a vicarious sacrifice; someone who orders his disciples to drink his blood; prayers for miraculous interventions; sins perpetrated against a god, atoned for by a god; fear of a beyond to which death is the portal; the form of the cross as a symbol in a time that no longer knows the function and ignominy of the cross -- how ghoulishly all this touches us, as if from the tomb of a primeval past! Can one believe that such things are still believed?


Articles on Friedrich Nietzsche

One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review of his ideas and influence—Part 1
by Stefan Steinberg

One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review of his ideas and influence—Part 2
by Stefan Steinberg

One hundred years since the death of Friedrich Nietzsche: a review of his ideas and influence—Part 3
by Stefan Steinberg

Friedrich Nietzsche: An Introduction
by John Knoblock



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